Take-out: Yes Bike Parking: Yes Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
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$$ Price range Moderate
1 review
Crissy Duff
Currently a bit of a ghost town feeling, this once bustling market has seen better days and maybe will again see those better days again.
Built in 1936 by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia for pushcarts of mainly Italian and Jewish immigrants the market swelled again with influx of Puerto Ricans to the area. It nosedived in the seventies and today sees a lilltle resurgence due to Hot Bread Kitchen baking it's goodies here.
There is a great plant stall, Breezy Hill Orchards, an African food stall, and a fruit stall. The fruit vendor gave me a head of garlic for free as I was the lone consumer one late afternoon. Could this market turn into the mega successful Essex Street Market? Hard to say. as this area has some similarities and many differences, though there is a great hope en EL Barrio that La Marqueta will rise again!
Currently a bit of a ghost town feeling, this once bustling market has seen better days and maybe will again see those better days again.
Built in 1936 by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia for pushcarts of mainly Italian and Jewish immigrants the market swelled again with influx of Puerto Ricans to the area. It nosedived in the seventies and today sees a lilltle resurgence due to Hot Bread Kitchen baking it's goodies here.
There is a great plant stall, Breezy Hill Orchards, an African food stall, and a fruit stall. The fruit vendor gave me a head of garlic for free as I was the lone consumer one late afternoon. Could this market turn into the mega successful Essex Street Market? Hard to say. as this area has some similarities and many differences, though there is a great hope en EL Barrio that La Marqueta will rise again!